Introduction to R for Researchers

Preparation steps

• R and RStudio downloaded to your laptop? ✔️

• Workshop and Quant Fundamentals books open? ✔️

• Workshop files downloaded? ✔️

Intended learning outcomes

By the end of the workshop, you will be able to:

1. Write reproducible reports using R Markdown / Quarto.

2. Clean and wrangle data into appropriate forms for visualisation and analysis.

3. Use the ggplot2 package for creating a range of plots.

4. Share/receive code to conduct a brief code review.

Why R?

Perfect for researchers

• Well-integrated tool popular in psychology researchers.

• Ecosystem of well-maintained packages (e.g., tidyverse).

Perfect for educators

• Reinforce reproducible teaching (Dogucu & Çetinkaya-Rundel, 2022) through using Quarto to create teaching materials.

R workflow

Image: Wickham et al. (2023)